Stoker&#39;s fire-iron.



UNITEDY STATT-:s PATENT Grrrcn.

JULIUS VEZEL, OF LEIPSIC, GERMANY.

STOKERS FIRE-IRON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,770, datedseptember 12, 1899.

Application filed February 23, 1899. Serial No. 706,625. I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUS WEZEL, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,and a resident of Leipsic, Saxony, Germany, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Stokers Fire-Irons, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention consists of improvements in stokersre-irons and ofthe details of construction hereinafter set forth and particularlypointed out in the claims; and in order to render the presentspecification more easily intelligible reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denotesimilar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a vertical section on the line a d, Fig. 2, throughaboiler-furnace provided with the present improvement; Fig. 2, a frontelevation of the same, and Fig. 3 a sectional plan on the line b o, Fig.l.

The object of the present invention is to enable the stoker to properlyattend to and stoke the re Without opening the nre-doors.

The nre-box of the boiler is closed against the outer air by means ofthe plate B, and through this plate the stoking-irons are passed. Theirons are advantageously formed of a piece of tube bent around double,as at D D', the shanks of said irons being passed through suitableoriices in the plate B and further supported outside the latter on afixed bar C. The free outer ends of the said irons are connected bymeans of flexible tubes G G2 G3 to a cold-water pipe system E, so thatcold Water may flow through the Whole of the irons. The samecold-Water-snpply pipe may be provided with a branch pipe i, extendingaround the ends of the fire-bars for the pur- Each iron D D is providedWith a cross-bar e, connecting its shanks at their outer ends, saidcross-bar serving as a handle by means of which the irons may bemanipulated.

From the above description it Will be evident that the irons may bemanipulated and the fuel evenly distributed over the grate Withoutopening the lire-doors.

The Work of the stokers is greatly facilitated by means of the presentinvention, the heat in the Stoke-room being very considerably reduced.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination With a boiler-furnace havinga lire-boX-closing plate B, Stoke-irons D Dmounted side by side so as tobe capable of traversing the surface of the grate-bars, said ironsconsisting of bent tubes, having parallel shanks, orifices in the saidplate to receive the said Shanks and cross-bars connecting the Shanks ofeach iron outside the said plate, said cross-bars serving as handles forthe purpose substantially as described.

2. In combination with a furnace having a re-boX-closing plate,Stoke-irons D D consisting of pieces of tubes bent around and havingparallel Shanks, said Shanks being connected by means of cross-barsoutside the said plate, orifices in the plate in which the said shanksmay slide and a cold-Water pipe system mounted in proximity to saidouter Stoke-iron ends and flexible pipe connections from the said pipesystem to the open ends of the tubular irons and back to the saidsupply-pipe substantially as described and for the purpose speciiied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twoWitnesses.

JULIUS NVEZEL.

Witnesses:

RUDOLPH FRIcKE, B. H. WARNER, Jr. Y i

